Nesting

Droppings

Latrine

Emperor dragonfly

Sparrowhawk in our garden, eating a dunnock.

Baby raft spider!

I watched this vole directly above gather nesting materials last night and take them to her burrow via an underwater entrance.

The Wrong Place

 Marbled White butterfly

I think I've been sitting in the wrong spot at Edgeley Road because I haven't seen many water voles this year there. But when I moved a bit further down the stream, two popped up straight away and wandered round my feet before settling on the opposite bank where I could photograph them. There was also a water shrew.

 Above, adult vole at Edgeley Road. Below, a juvenile vole also at Edgeley Road. It has a white spot on its forehead.

Below, lizards at Prees Heath. At least two of them are gravid.

 Purple Hairstreak and Silver Studded Blue butterflies

Red deer on a farm near Shrewsbury. Below, meadow pipit on the Long Mynd.

 Brown rat.

This vole was at Edward German Drive. Although it has lost an eye, it may survive.

Water vole latrine.